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My wife, Kendra, is entering her third season in fantasy football. Much like a wide receiver in its third season, it's her time to shine. She has the basics down — the draft, how to monitor the waiver wire and trash talk decorum. Her Associate's degree out of the way, it was time to work on her...

My wife, Kendra, is entering her third season in fantasy football. Much like a wide receiver in its third season, it's her time to shine. She has the basics down — the draft, how to monitor the waiver wire and trash talk decorum. Her Associate's degree out of the way, it was time to work on her...

The NFL has suspended Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott without pay for the first six games of the season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. Elliott, 22, the Cowboys’ first-round pick in 2016, won the NFL rushing title as a rookie and led Dallas to the top seed in the...

Dave Grayson, a football star at San Diego and Lincoln High who went on to a 10-year pro football career as a cornerback, has died. Grayson was 78. No cause of death was listed in the weekend announcement by the Oakland Raiders, for whom Grayson played his final six seasons. Grayson joined the...

Every NFL team has at least one practice under its belt and we’re less than a month away from Oregon State and Colorado State kicking off the 2017 college football season. Why not dust off the ol’ mock draftin’ skills? Of course this early, it’s merely an academic exercise, but if this world has...

More San Diego NFL fans support the Los Angeles Chargers than any other team, although support has dwindled significantly since the team’s move to LA. San Diegans blame Team President Dean Spanos for the Chargers departure, and a full third of San Diegans will actively root against the team. For...

Derek Loville’s NFL career gave him three Super Bowl rings. It also gave him broken bones, concussions and lasting pain that led to a pill addiction. On Wednesday, Loville was sentenced to 15 months in prison, not for his longtime consumption of illegal prescription painkillers, but for being a...

David Quessenberry, a La Costa Canyon High alum who overcame a three-year battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma to return to the NFL, on Monday was named winner of the George Halas Award by the Professional Football Writers of America. Quessenberry, 26, was diagnosed in 2014 and spent the next three...

They’re intertwined, the life of Carmel Valley resident Mike Haynes and the money-obsessed, loyalty-be-damned wanderlust of this day’s NFL. He cemented his name as a game-changing cornerback for the Raiders, who will shuttle their slot receivers to the slot machine din of Las Vegas. He lives in...

The “real” general managers can exit stage left. They’ve done their job. Fantasy owners are now on the clock. Looking at the skill position players, we saw 10 quarterbacks, 32 wide receivers, 30 running backs (including fullbacks) and 14 tight ends get drafted. After evaluating the players new...

As of 2016, there were just as many undrafted free agents (481) as 1st- and 2nd-round picks combined (480) active in the NFL, according to Elias. Talent always finds its way through the cracks. Here are my best available undrafted free agents after this weekend’s NFL Draft: 1. Lorenzo Jerome, S,...

There are still talented players on my board after day two of the NFL Draft in Philadelphia. Here are my top prospects available for today’s rounds four through seven: 1. Caleb Brantley, DT, Florida This is a Top 50 player who slid because he was named in a criminal complaint following an April...

There are plenty of talented players left after an exciting first day of the NFL Draft in Philadelphia. Here are my top prospects available for today’s round two and three: 1. Dalvin Cook, RB, Florida St. Multiple arrests (no convictions), three shoulder surgeries since high school and 13 career...

Last week’s NFL Draft was one for the ages — Philadelphia exceeded expectations as host, the Mitchell Trubisky trade shocked the world and Drew Pearson put Eagles fans in their place. The one thing the draft didn’t have was an elite prospect at the quarterback position. In 2018, we could have anywhere...

The NFL Draft has become a nice appetizer before our main course in September. A mock version of said draft is meant to educate, and even entertain. At very least, it helps you pass the time. Here’s my completion of my final 2017 NFL Mock Draft, through a complete seven rounds: FOURTH ROUND 108....

This journey began over six months ago. Endless days analyzing 32 professional football teams and hundreds of college football players. Sleepless nights trying to read the hands of 32 poker-faced general managers. Through college all-star games, the NFL Combine, NFL free agency and pro days, I’ve...

This journey began over six months ago. Endless days analyzing 32 professional football teams and hundreds of college football players. Sleepless nights trying to read the hands of 32 poker-faced general managers. Through college all-star games, the NFL Combine, NFL free agency and pro days, I’ve...

We are a little over a week away from the NFL Draft kicking off in Philadelphia. This doesn’t mean the rumors and smokescreens will stop between now and April 27. If anything, they’ll increase in volume and voracity. This is where the fun begins. The NFL Draft has become a nice appetizer before...

The NFL Draft has become a nice appetizer before our main course in September. A mock version of said draft is meant to educate, and even entertain. At very least, it helps you pass the time. Here’s the latest version of my 2017 NFL Mock Draft, through three rounds: FIRST ROUND 1. Cleveland (1-15)...

Welcome to draft season! This is the 12th of 12 positional breakdowns leading up to the 2017 NFL Draft. Here are my top 10 cornerbacks: 1. Marshon Lattimore (rSo., Ohio St., 6-foot-0, 193 pounds) Has the elite athleticism and loaded skillset to become an All-Pro early in his career. Past issues...

Welcome to draft season! This is the 11th of 12 positional breakdowns leading up to the 2017 NFL Draft. Here are my top 10 safeties: 1. Jamal Adams (Jr., LSU, 6-foot-0, 214 pounds) A top three player in this draft. Capable of impacting a defense on the field and in the locker room. 2. Malik Hooker...

We are three weeks away from the NFL Draft returning to Philadelphia for the first time in 56 years, where the entire three-day event will take place outdoors in an open-air theater on the steps of the historic Philadelphia Museum of Art. You might know these steps better as “The Rocky Steps” —...

“Sweetie, if you’re going to be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.” — Marilyn Monroe The NFL, which always has taken a hypocritical-but-not-openly-monetarial bite out of the hand that feeds it — gambling — is allowing the Raiders to take a chance on Las Vegas without having to take a...